Apple Inc (AAPL)

[Tex]

re uptime

If Apple could offer five nines and 20GB, I'd buy it myself.

Apple hasn't shown me it can do delay-free mail-forwarding, though, which kinda kills my capacity to believe they can do anything else. My business depends on getting email (I get my faxes by email through a service), and I can't afford delay and unreliability in my email. If I depend on a firm to provide backup, I expect that to be at least as reliable as I now expect my email to be.

Apple needs to hire an online services czar. The quality is only going to embarrass Apple and keep it out of the enterprise if this keeps up. Apple's bad service press will be RIMM's service advertisement going forward if Apple doesn't shape it up.

Take care,
--Tex.